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It's rarely a good idea. In general it's much easier and more efficient to store the names of image files in a varchar field in the database, and then (assuming they are intended for display on a Web page) use ASP to generate an appropriate IMG tag. Of course it depends what you want to do, but I haven't yet found a situation where this method wasn't appropriate.